A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Joe Mee

Main image: Penitents of the Cristo de la Buena Muerte (Christ of the Good Death) group take part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, Spain. Photograph: César Manso/AFP/Getty Images

  • California, US

    Ethan Jackline sits next to a flag planted by a friend at the Folsom stop of Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy tour
    A young man at a political rally

  • Washington DC, US

    Worshippers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church kiss the gospel during a service at the Re’ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam church
    Worshippers kiss the gospel

  • Washington DC, US

    Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, leaves a Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of the messaging platform WhatsApp and the image-sharing app Instagram
    Mark Zuckerberg leaves court in a limousine

  • São Paulo, Brazil

    Residents of the Moinho favela protest against the state government’s plan to evict them
    Women holding up their hands and shouting

  • Bahia state, Brazil

    Catholics dressed in white sheets light candles as they take part in the Terno das Almas procession in Igatu, a small isolated town in the mountains of Chapada Diamantina national park. Terno das Almas is an ancient ritual that takes place every night during Holy Week when participants make a pilgrimage through various parts of the village, praying and singing for the souls of their dead
    Catholic faithful dressed in white sheets light candles

  • Bogor, Indonesia

    A worker produces shoes at a shoe factory at home. Donald Trump has set a tariff of 32% on Indonesian goods, affecting exports such as electronics, footwear and garments
    A worker produces shoes at a home shoe factory

  • Shekhan district, Iraq

    Members of the Yazidi community celebrate Charshama Sor (Red Wednesday) marking the new year of the Yazidi, at the Lalish temple, the main temple of the Yazidi religion
    Worshippers stand holding lamps

  • Terneuzen, Netherlands

    Cross-bearers during a rehearsal for an annual contemporary musical rendition of the story of Jesus’s suffering and death
    People lift a huge illuminated crucifix

  • Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Preparations for a banquet at the Royal Palace during the state visit of the sultan of Oman
    Palace staff in uniform adjust the setting of a large banquet table

  • Zamora, Spain

    Penitents of the Cristo de la Buena Muerte (Christ of the Good Death) group take part in a Holy Week procession
    Penitents line a street carrying candles and crucifixes

  • Málaga, Spain

    Young women from the Humiliacion y Estrella group prepare themselves before taking part in an Easter procession
    Young women help each other to prepare for a procession

  • Madrid, Spain

    The traditional procession carrying the image known as Christ of the Halberdiers to the royal palace before ar procession on Good Friday
    People carry a crucifix through the streets

  • Dolgellau, Wales

    Dai Walker, a miner, (left) and George Frangeskides, the chair of Alba Mineral Resources, descend to the fifth underground level of the Clogau St David’s gold mine near Dolgellau. Fifty metres below the surface, the search for rare Welsh gold continues, spurred on by soaring prices on global markets
    Mining for gold in Wales

  • London, UK

    Gender-critical campaigners celebrate outside the supreme court in London after its ruling that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex
    Women celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London
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